An interesting article for MS Sufferers

[vetran]

any new knowledge is welcome its a terrible disease.

[Halo Jones]

Good to see research in MS but this is just one theory of many, truth is no one knows the how / why of MS, such as is the Myelin damage the cause or the symptom?

I lost a lot of faith in the MS Society when I realised that they are funded by the big drugs companies & as such they only seem to like drug based solutions & will not consider other options, but that’s a different soap-box for another day

[zharrt]

I thought this was a thread about the return of the start menu in the new version of Windows

WHS

[doodab]

I thought this was a thread about the return of the start menu in the new version of Windows

[suityou01]

BBC

The disease is caused by the body's immune system thinking that myelin is a foreign body like a flu virus.

Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine developed a technique to retrain the immune system.

They took blood samples and coupled white blood cells, a part of the immune system, to fragments of myelin. This was injected back into the patients to make them tolerate myelin.

The researchers said the therapy appeared safe. The study was too small to prove whether it benefited patients, but the researchers did report a calming of the immune reaction.

I really hope this is the beginning of the end for this horrible disease.